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Cedar Rapids, Ia, Us

Honolulu, Hawaii, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Maintained internal corporate infrastructure on AWS including; Github Enterprise(self-hosted), Confluence, Splunk, PagerDuty, andTailscale.• Served as lead on AWS cost optimizations, resulting in a 28% monthly cost savings.• Migrated various Terraform standards and locations to a common model based on Terragrunt.• Served as technical lead for launching the IL5 offering of our cyber security product.• Stood up internal apt repo for streamlined package sharing.• Served as technical lead for the corporate and product infrastructure teams.

Tempe, Az, Us

• Lead efforts to; update infrastructure, move to centralized/structured logging, modernize data layer, and transition applications from Python 2 to Python 3 for the abuse reporting pipeline.• Migrated components with availability concerns to the public cloud, resulting in 99.98% uptime(from 96%) and a more than 50% reduction in response time.• Designed and implemented procedures to reduce average CVE patch time within the team from months to days.• Designed and executed procedures to facilitate version uplifts of Kubernetes and RabbitMQ, allowing these systems to be updated within weeks instead of spanning months.• Lead multiple vendor technical evaluations to determine product fit based on measurable criteria.• Served as primary team architect for two years.• Uplifted engineering rigor across the team by applying automated linting, pre-commit checks, review checklists, deployments checklists, and automated integration tests to the team’s day to day workflows.• Developed and deployed a CICD system for all 70 of the team’s microservices.• Collaborated with other senior peers to deprecate more than 35,000 lines of unused/redundant code.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Assisted with creation/support of development and verification tools for Mission Systems programs.• Contributed to CICD environment to allow for more rapid integration cycles in lab. • Assisted with integration of product at a system level.

Tempe, Az, Us

• Prototyped infrastructure move to AWS cloud offerings. • Maintained/refreshed on premise Kubernetes cluster, MongoDB/Redis deployments, and Jenkins based CICD pipeline. • Acted as lead in effort to transfer ownership of an externally developed API to within the team. • Primary developer integrating teams APIs/services with new e-commerce system.• Acted as lead in software design/architecture phases for new projects being developed within the team.• Included software/infrastructure prototype work, wireframes/mockups, cross-team integration/communication, and requirement gathering efforts.• Lead the push for team wide design reviews early on in the software development cycle .• Developed/deployed Kubernetes infrastructure to provided standardized logging/monitoring/high availability for team owned applications & services. • Developed standardized CICD pipeline that provided static analysis, docker image creation, and automated push/rollback based integration test results.• Primary developer on several new APIs endpoints and department wide tools. Served as secondary developer on several new web and electron applications.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Maintained/improved platform CICD for A350 xRM & SDM modules.• Developed new feature implementation/bug analysis and fixes for multiple modules within the A350 IMO platform.• Supplied estimates and prototypes for new feature proposals for multiple modules within the A350 IMO platform.• Collaborated with systems engineers to improve testing process and verify all new features.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Developed new features and supplied bug fixes for embedded WindRiver Linux & VxWorks A653 platforms. • Performed integration activities with platform customer to ensure proper requirement fit/implementation.• Deployed new development environment for A350 IMO module including; system wide unit tests, code styling/formatting at compile time, and streamlined filesystem image creation.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Performed testing and performance analysis for Proline 21 display software.• Managed lab for A350 IMO SDM module, performing chair setup, software deployments, reproducing customer bugs, supplying software fixes, and running software verification.• Assisted in end to end performance analysis of the A350 IMO cabinet.• Received Rockwell Collin’s Above & Beyond award.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

A variety of development• Contributed to an internal radio testing tools written in Java/C++ based on the Eclipse GUI toolkit.• Contributed to system test scripts written in Python.• Assisted in the execution of systems level E2E testing. on in-house software tools.